The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness
A comprehensive history of the Adirondack mountain range in the eastern United States.
A comprehensive history of the Adirondack mountain range in the eastern United States.
This small collection of essays by Finnish scholars establishes the basic tenets of environmental history as a field of inquiry.
In his essay, Robert L. Chapman analyzes the role of environmental restoration.
Wild Earth 8, no. 2 features articles on the connections between philanthropy and nature preservation and on the history of land protection in the US, as well as profiles of conservation heroes Howard Zahniser and Mardy Murie.
Wild Earth 3, no. 3 features articles on protecting biodiversity in the Selkirk Mountains, preserving biodiversity in caves, restoring the Wild Atlantic Salmon, and changing state forestry laws.
Earth First! 25, no. 4 reports on the protests against logging in the wild Siskyou Mountains in Oregon, on jurisdictional consequences for Earth Liberation Front activists, and features an essay on “Stupidity and Critics of the Ecology Movement.”
Earth First! 26, no. 2 focuses on articles that discuss the human causes of bird flu pandemic, feautre urban farming and ecology issues, and discuss the indian movement’s new old problems.
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, Civilizing Nature adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time.
Hugo Reinert uses the highly endangered Lesser White-fronted Goose to develop an argument about a certain “biopolitics of the wild”—a particular mode of governing nonhuman life, rooted in certain conditions of visibility and engagement.
In this article, Monica Vasile discusses the recent reintroduction of bison in the Romanian Carpathians, and the surrounding local narratives and unresolved tensions.